MEDIA ADVISORY: The Linux Foundation to Participate in Mobile World Congress 2019

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2019 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, will be onsite at Mobile World Congress 2019, February 25-28, in Barcelona, Spain.

Mobile World Congress special edition with Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger and Marta Piekarska Director of Hyperledger Ecosystem.

Brian Behlendorf, recognized by the New York Times as one of the Top 10 Most Influential People in Blockchain, will speak about what Hyperledger has become since its launch in December 2015, and the road ahead for 2019. There will be a Q&A session where Brian will answer all your technical and not technical questions. During the meetup, Vipin Rathi, Hyperledger ambassador, will present the new Telecom special interest group.

Hyperledger will announce the launch of its Telecom Special Interest Group, which is focused on technical and business-level conversations about appropriate use cases for blockchain technology in the Telecom industry. The activities of the Telecom-SIG include:

Identifying related proofs of concepts, current pilot, use cases and functional architecture;

Working towards building Telecom Blockchain consortium;

Sharing stories of successes, failures, opportunities and challenges;

Identifying conferences or other opportunities to connect face to face, as well as submit talks or present as a group at an event.

Linux Foundation executives will be available for briefings with members of the press during the event; for booking information, please contact pr@linuxfoundation.org.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found atwww.linuxfoundation.org.

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